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Is This It by The Strokes named album of the decade

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If an alien landed in your backyard asking, "Human, what's the best earthly album recorded in the noughties?", you should give them a copy of The Strokes' Is This It.

According to NME, in 2001 Casablancas' band recorded the greatest album of the decade, followed by The Libertines' Up The Bracket and Primal Scream's Xtrmntr.

What do you think?

Here is the full chart compiled by a panel of artists and leading figures in the music industry:

1. The Strokes - Is This It
2. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
3. Primal Scream - xtrmntr
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
6. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
9. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows
11. At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
12. LCD Soundsystem - The Sound of Silver
13. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
14. Radiohead - Kid A
15. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
16. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
17. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
18. The White Stripes - Elephant
19. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
20. Blur - Think Tank
21. The Coral - The Coral
22. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
23. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
24. The Libertines - The Libertines
25. Rapture - Echoes
26. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
27. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
28. Johnny Cash - Man Comes Around
29. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
30. Elbow - Asleep In the Back
31. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
33. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
34. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
35. Babyshambles - Down in Albion
36. Spirtualized - Let It Come Down
37. The Knife - Silent Shout
38. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
39. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
40. Ryan Adams - Gold
41. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
42. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
43. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
44. Outkast - Loveboxxx/The Love Below
45. Avalanches - Since I Left You
46. Delgados - The Great Eastern
47. Brendan Benson - Lapalco
48. Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
49. Muse - Absolution
50. MIA - Arular

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/17/nme-top-albums-decade-noughties
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28 comments // Is This It by The Strokes named album of the decade

  • CreatioExNihil
  • fudgesicle
  • cynker
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      cynker  

    • this is a terrible list - fuck you nme.
      what a boring bunch of music - half of these bands WILL BE FORGOTTEN in 20 years - its just indie-pop-shit

      these are the albums that plebs listen to - find your own music dont be told what to listen to by these uncultured morons

    • 2 years ago
  • calm_incense
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      calm_incense  
    • cynker:

      Half? In 20 years? Most of these bands are already forgotten.

      I mean, seriously, when's the last time you heard about The Strokes? Until this Current article, the last time I had heard about them was in 2004...

      Granted, popularity isn't criteria for quality. It's not so much that these bands will be forgotten, so much as that their music is so forgettable.

    • 2 years ago
  • zphoenixdownz
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      zphoenixdownz  

    • alphabetical order

      01. Adams, Ryan – Heartbreaker
      02. Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
      03. Appleseed Cast – Mare Vitalis
      04. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
      05. Bird, Andrew – Fingerlings 3
      06. Blonde Redhead – 23
      07. Broken Social Scene – S/T
      08. Case, Neko – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
      09. Cat Power – You Are Free
      10. Cursive – The Ugly Organ
      11. Deathcab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
      12. The Decemberists – Picaresque
      13. Deftones – White Pony
      14. The Dismemberment Plan – Change
      15. Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
      16. Feist – The Reminder
      17. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
      18. Fleet Foxes – S/T
      19. Frodus – And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea
      20. Godspeed Y.B.E. – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
      21. Hopesfall – No Wings to Speak of EP
      22. Hopesfall – The Satellite Years
      23. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
      24. Iron & Wine – Woman King EP
      25. Kings of Convenience – Riot on an Empty Street
      26. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
      27. Lekman, Jens – When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
      28. M.I.A. – Kala
      29. Maritime – We, The Vehicles
      30. Minus the Bear – Highly Refined Pirates
      31. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News
      32. Outkast - Stankonia
      33. Pedro the Lion – Control
      34. Piebald – The Rock Revolution Will Not Be Televised EP
      35. Pinback – Blue Screen Life
      36. Q and Not U – No Kill No Beep Beep
      37. The Radio Dept. – Lesser Matters
      38. Radiohead – In Rainbows
      39. Red Animal War – Polizida
      40. Rice, Damien – O
      41. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
      42. Sigur Ros – ( )
      43. Smith, Elliott – Figure 8
      44. Snowden – Anti-Anti
      45. Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
      46. Starflyer 59 – Leave Here a Stranger
      47. The Strokes – Is This It
      48. Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
      49. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
      50. Zero Zero – AM Gold

    • 2 years ago
  • ZeldaMasterZapp
  • zphoenixdownz
  • ZeldaMasterZapp
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      ZeldaMasterZapp  

    • Last time I checked NME was some kind of Punk rock magazine, I wouldn't expect them to fill their list with artist to please the rap fans, who bitch all the time, when their gods like Dilla or someone aren't mentioned.

      Same with indie hard on boys.

      And to that guy who said Weezer. I'm a Weezer fan, but WTF has Weezer done that was good since The Blue Album(their first album)? Weezer albums have been getting considerably worse, now they're making a new album and has a song with Lil Wayne(the artist you get for publicity when you know it's gonna suck, now days).

      The only good songs they've made in years may have been Beverly Hills, and Pork and Beans.

    • 2 years ago
  • calm_incense
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      calm_incense  
    • ZeldaMasterZapp:

      "WTF has Weezer done that was good since The Blue Album(their first album)?"

      Uh...how about PINKERTON? You know, the album that half their fans think was their very finest album of all, and nearly all of them agree is at least tried with the debut.

      "The only good songs they've made in years may have been Beverly Hills, and Pork and Beans."

      Jesus Christ, no. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived was 10X better than both of those combined.

    • 2 years ago
  • Giganticus
  • artemis6
  • Frameshift13v4
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      Frameshift13v4  

    • I try not to condemn lists like these because everyone's entitled to their opinion, but... ehhh... I really don't agree with this list. Who is this panel of artists and leading figures in the music industry? Are they just employees of NME... haha

    • 2 years ago
  • cynker
  • knightmonkey
  • dirtycurty
  • ozoneocean
  • calm_incense
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      calm_incense  

    • After moving on from listening to the same old music over and over again, lists like these strike me as almost bizarre, to think that there really are people whose taste in music is so incredibly limited. I'm guessing every single one of these artists came from the Anglosphere, and every single one of these albums is in English. I'm guessing they're all either rock, pop, hip hop, country, R&B, or dance/electronica, and I'm guessing they all consist of "songs" (that is, with singing).

      Ah, well. Business is business. There's no business in promoting the unmarketable.

    • 2 years ago
  • sidewaysclyde
  • ReganMann
  • calm_incense
  • ReganMann
  • ReganMann
  • ZeldaMasterZapp
  • somogibbs
  • sk8r408
  • calm_incense
  • Martel04
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